At this point in time all browsers, and also Node.js, support standard `import`/`export` statements and we can now finally consider outputting modern JavaScript modules in the builds.[1]
In order for this to work we can *only* use proper `import`/`export` statements throughout the main code-base, and (as expected) our Node.js support made this much more complicated since both the official builds and the GitHub Actions-based tests must keep working.[2]
One remaining issue is that the `pdf.scripting.js` file cannot be built as a JavaScript module, since doing so breaks PDF scripting.
Note that my initial goal was to try and split these changes into a couple of commits, however that unfortunately didn't really work since it turned out to be difficult for smaller patches to work correctly and pass (all) tests that way.[3]
This is a classic case of every change requiring a couple of other changes, with each of those changes requiring further changes in turn and the size/scope quickly increasing as a result.
One possible "issue" with these changes is that we'll now only output JavaScript modules in the builds, which could perhaps be a problem with older tools. However it unfortunately seems far too complicated/time-consuming for us to attempt to support both the old and modern module formats, hence the alternative would be to do "nothing" here and just keep our "old" builds.[4]
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[1] The final blocker was module support in workers in Firefox, which was implemented in Firefox 114; please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import#browser_compatibility
[2] It's probably possible to further improve/simplify especially the Node.js-specific code, but it does appear to work as-is.
[3] Having partially "broken" patches, that fail tests, as part of the commit history is *really not* a good idea in general.
[4] Outputting JavaScript modules was first requested almost five years ago, see issue 10317, and nowadays there *should* be much better support for JavaScript modules in various tools.
The minified default viewer has never been distributed in either official releases or through pdfjs-dist, which means that it's most likely unused, and it's has never been tested nor actively maintained.
This has been deprecated since version `2.15.349`, which is a year ago.
Removing this will also simplify some upcoming changes, specifically outputting of JavaScript modules in the builds.
The main stamp button will be used to just enter in a add/edit image mode:
- the user can add a new image in using the new button.
- the user can edit an image in resizing, moving it.
In image mode, when the user clicks outside on the page but not on an editor,
then all the selected editors will be unselected.
By leveraging import maps we can get rid of *most* of the remaining `require`-calls in the `src/display/`-folder, since we should strive to use modern `import`-statements wherever possible.
The only remaining cases are Node.js-specific dependencies, since those seem very difficult to convert unless we start producing a bundle *specifically* for Node.js environments.
There's no good reason for getting this option multiple times in the same method. Also, we can slightly re-factor how the `editorStampButton` is made visible.
- Remove the dependency on fit-curve;
- Improve the way to draw the current line in using a Path2D and
in clearing only the last part of the curve instead of clearing
all the canvas;
- Smooth the curve when drawing to avoid to have some changes after
the drawing ends;
- Make the smoothing a bit less agressive.
Originally the `PDFSidebarResizer` class was slightly larger, since the code used to contain e.g. feature testing for older (and no longer supported) browsers.
Given that there's some amount of overlap, when it comes to what DOM-elements and state that these classes need, it now seems reasonable to simply move the sidebar-resizing into the `PDFSidebar` class.
For the MOZCENTRAL build-target this patch reduces the size of the *built* `web/viewer.js` file by just over `1.1` kilobytes.
Similar to other toolbar/secondaryToolbar buttons that open toolbars or dialogs, it seems reasonable to use "aria-controls" for the editor-toolbar buttons as well.
After the previous patch we now have only *a single* `PRODUCTION` occurrence in the entire code-base, more specifically in the `web/viewer.html` file.
This special build-target can be replaced with any condition that always evaluate to `false`, such as e.g. a comment.
*Please note:* This patch might be considered too hacky, hence I completely understand if it's rejected.
To make this functionality work out-of-the-box in custom implementations, see e.g. the "viewer components" examples, it'd be slightly easier if we dynamically create/insert the "hiddenCopyElement" in the `PDFViewer` constructor.
Given that the "copy all text" feature still appears to work just as before with this patch, hopefully I'm not overlooking any reason why doing this would be a bad idea.
Some of these pre-processor statements are *many* years old, and could thus do with some clean-up. Note that the pre-processor originally didn't support else-if statements, and by using those the code becomes a bit less verbose.
The tag <base> is used to resolve relative URIs within the document.
Newly added SVG filters use a relative URI which then use the URI in base
but this one mismatches with the document URI and consequently filters are
not found in the Firefox viewer.
So this patch just removes <base> and replace few relative URLs by absolute
ones.
This further extends the web-specific import maps introduced in PR 16009, to allow removing *most* of the build-time `require` statements from the viewer. The few remaining ones are fallbacks used for the COMPONENTS respectively the `legacy` GENERIC builds.
Given that the GV-viewer isn't using most of the UI-related components of the default-viewer, we can avoid including them in the *built* viewer to save space.[1]
The least "invasive" way of implementing this, at least that I could come up with, is to leverage import maps with suitable stubs for the GV-viewer.
The one slightly annoying thing is that we now have larger import maps across multiple html-files, and you'll need to remember to update all of them when making future changes.
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[1] With this patch, the built `viewer.js` size is 391 kB and `viewer-geckoview.js` is 285 kB.
This patch has been successfully tested in a local, artifact, Firefox build.
*Please note:* The only thing that'll no longer work for PDF documents opened using "data:"-URLs is middle-clicking on internal/outline links, in order to open the destination in a new tab. This is however an extremely small loss of functionality, and as can be seen in the bug the alternative (i.e. doing nothing) is surely much worse.
In the Firefox PDF Viewer this has never been used, with the error message simply printed in the web-console, and (somewhat) recently we've also updated the viewer code to avoid bundling the relevant code there. Furthermore, in the Firefox PDF Viewer we're not even display the *browser* fallback bar any more; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1705327.
Hence it seems slightly strange to keep this UI around in the GENERIC viewer, and this patch proposes that we simply remove it to simplify/unify the relevant code in the viewer. In particular this also allows us to remove a couple of l10n-strings, which have always been unused in the Firefox PDF Viewer.
After the changes in PR 15391 one separator may now become visible too soon when the viewer is narrow, applies e.g. to the MOZCENTRAL viewer, since the wrong CSS class is being used.
The reason that this happens is that only the GENERIC viewer includes the "openFile"-buttons, and we thus need the separator to also be conditionally defined.
Rather than including all of this external code in the PDF.js repository, we should be using the npm package instead.
Unfortunately this is slightly more complicated than you'd hope, since the `fit-curve` package (which is older) isn't directly compatible with modern JavaScript modules.
In particular, the following cases needed to be considered:
- For the development viewer (i.e. `gulp server`) and the unit-tests, we thus need to build a fitCurve-bundle that can be directly `import`ed.
- For the actual PDF.js build-targets, we can slightly reduce the sizes by depending on the "raw" `fit-curve` source-code.
- For the Node.js unit-tests, the `fit-curve` package can be used as-is.
For encrypted PDF documents without the required permissions set, this patch adds support for disabling of Annotation-editing. However, please note that it also requires that the `pdfjs.enablePermissions` preference is set to `true` (since PDF document permissions could be seen as user hostile).[1]
As I started looking at the issue, it soon became clear that *only* trying to fix the issue without slightly re-factor the surrounding code would be somewhat difficult.
The following is an overview of the changes in this patch; sorry about the size/scope of this!
- Use a new `AnnotationEditorUIManager`-instance *for each* PDF document opened in the GENERIC viewer, to prevent user-added Annotations from "leaking" from one document into the next.
- Re-factor the `BaseViewer.#initializePermissions`-method, to simplify handling of temporarily disabled modes (e.g. for both Annotation-rendering and Annotation-editing).
- When editing is enabled, let the Editor-buttons be `disabled` until the document has loaded. This way we avoid the buttons becoming clickable temporarily, for PDF documents that use permissions.
- Slightly re-factor how the Editor-buttons are shown/hidden in the viewer, and reset the toolbar-state when a new PDF document is opened.
- Flip the order of the Editor-buttons and the pre-exising toolbarButtons in the "toolbarViewerRight"-div. (To help reduce the size, a little bit, for the PR that adds new Editor-toolbars.)
- Enable editing by default in the development viewer, i.e. `gulp server`, since having to (repeatedly) do that manually becomes annoying after a while.
- Finally, support disabling of editing when `pdfjs.enablePermissions` is set; fixes issue 15049.
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[1] Either manually with `about:config`, or using e.g. a [Group Policy](https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates).
- Approximate the drawn curve by a set of Bezier curves in using
js code from https://github.com/soswow/fit-curves.
The code has been slightly modified in order to make the linter
happy.
- Ensure that the modified-warning won't be displayed, when navigating away from the viewer, if the user has added custom Annotations and then *removed all* of them.
- Ensure that the *initial* editor-buttons state, i.e. the `toggled`-class, is correctly displayed in the toolbar when then viewer loads.
- Tweak the CSS-classes for the editor-buttons, such that they use the correct focus/hover-rules (similar to the sidebar-buttons).
- Remove a no longer accurate comment from the `BaseViewer.annotationEditorMode`-setter.
- Address a couple of *smaller* outstanding review comments, including some re-formatting changes, from PR 14976.
Note how in the `viewer.html` file we're specifying class names for most buttons, despite that not really being necessary. First of all, in many cases those class names are *identical* to the element-ids. Secondly, looking through the CSS rules they are only ever used when specifying button icons.
All-in-all, we should be able to simplify the HTML-code and use the element-ids in the CSS rules instead. Obviously ids have a higher CSS specificity than classes, but given how the old classes were being used that shouldn't be a problem here.
Also, the patch generalizes the styling for buttons (e.g. `viewBookmark`) that are *actually* link-elements.
Finally, while slightly unrelated, this patch also removes a little bit of duplication when specifying the border for `toolbarField`s.
Note how both of the openFile-buttons are always hidden during viewer initialization in the MOZCENTRAL build, i.e. the *built-in* Firefox PDF Viewer. Despite that we still include HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for these buttons in the build.
This patch *reduces* the size of the `gulp mozcentral` output by `1679` bytes, which isn't a lot but still cannot hurt.
Note that both the `errorWrapper` HTML and JavaScript code is being ignored in the MOZCENTRAL build, i.e. the *built-in* Firefox PDF Viewer, however the CSS rules are still being included.
That seems totally unnecessary, and while we currently don't have full build-target support in the CSS pre-processor we can actually improve things quite easily anyway. By (ab)using the existing CSS pre-processor, which will remove any non-Firefox CSS rules for the MOZCENTRAL build, it's possible to easily stop bundling any CSS rules by using comments that include a `-webkit`-string.
*Please note:* To easily test that this doesn't break the `errorWrapper` in GENERIC builds, try running e.g. `PDFViewerApplication._otherError("test");` in the web-console.
The styling of the previous/next-buttons and the findInput, with the elements being "glued" together, was supposed to mimic the styling used in the Firefox *browser* findbar. However, after the most recent re-styling of the Firefox browser UI these elements are now visually separated.
Hence it makes sense, as far as I'm concerned, to try and follow this styling for the findbar used in the GENERIC viewer. One benefit of doing this is that we get more consistent styling, since the buttons now look/behave identically in both the main toolbar and the findbar. Additionally this also simplifies the CSS a bit, since a lot of the existing findbar-specific rules can be removed.
